Utah man: I had sex with unconscious neighbor to save her life

A Utah man is in trouble after he allegedly found a female neighbor unconscious on her front porch and had sex with her — in an attempt, he reportedly said, to warm her up.

Rodger William Kelly, 50, of St. George, told police he had intercourse with the unconscious 29-year-old on May 19 because "he was trying to save her life," according to court documents.

Kelly claimed the action was to "get her temperature up," police wrote in a probable cause statement filed in 5th District Court.

Kelly told officers that he found the woman passed out in front of her apartment and brought her inside his apartment, changed her clothes and put her on his bed. He said he then lay down next to her and hugged her to try to get her temperature up because she had been outside, then attempted intercourse.

When police arrived, responding to an unconscious-person call, they found Kelly inside his apartment giving the woman CPR.

The woman later told police she had bruises on her pelvis and thighs and thought she might have been raped, according to court documents.

Police told Kelly that his actions amounted to rape. He was charged Monday with one count of first-degree felony rape.

Kelly
told police that the two previously were intimate, but admitted the woman had told him before the incident that she didn't want to have sex with him again.